The lyrics, " Now the red ones make me fly, and the blue ones help me fall " may refer to antidepressants or other drugs (" Reds & Blues " in particular is drug slang for the color of commonly abused amphetamine & barbiturate pills respectively, uppers & downers ).

The city hosts the annual Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival, attracting regional and international jazz, blues, rock, and world artists.

The annual " Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival ", which attracts top jazz stars nationwide and large out-of-town audiences, has been rated Kansas City's " best festival.

According to John Sobol, the jazz musician and poet who wrote Digitopia Blues, rap " bears a striking resemblance to the evolution of jazz both stylistically and formally.

Gil Scott-Heron, a jazz poet / musician who wrote and released such seminal songs as " The Revolution Will Not Be Televised ", " H2OGate Blues Part 2: We Beg Your Pardon America ," and " Johannesberg ," has been cited as an influence on many rappers.

" The album, which also included long-time fan favorite " Tom Traubert's Blues ( Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen )", featured jazz drummer Shelly Manne and was, like his previous albums, heavily influenced by jazz.

* Blues and jazz music became popularized during the 1910s and 1920s in the United States.

Jazz stars in the 1950s who came into prominence in their genres called Bebop, Hard bop, Cool jazz and the Blues, at this time included Lester Young, Ben Webster, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Art Tatum, Bill Evans, Ahmad Jamal, Oscar Peterson, Gil Evans, Jerry Mulligan, Cannonball Adderley, Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Art Blakey, Max Roach, the Miles Davis Quintet, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington, Nina Simone, and Billie Holiday.

Specializing in hot jazz and recoiling from so-called sweet music, the band took its name from one of its most frequent numbers, Jelly Roll Morton's " Wolverine Blues.

In the late 1950s, his work in films took the shape of scoring for soundtracks, notably Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ), with James Stewart, in which he appeared fronting a roadhouse combo, and Paris Blues ( 1961 ), which featured Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier as jazz musicians.

His composition " Jelly Roll Blues " was the first published jazz composition, in 1915.

In her most notable screen role, Fitzgerald played the part of singer Maggie Jackson in Jack Webb's 1955 jazz film Pete Kelly's Blues.

Their " Livery Stable Blues " became the first jazz single ever issued.

Robinson composed the jazz standard " Eccentric " (" That Eccentric Rag "), " Margie ", " Jazzola ", " Singin ' the Blues ( Till My Daddy Comes Home )", which was recorded by Bix Beiderbecke, Frankie Trumbauer, and Eddie Lang, " Mary Lou ", " Pan Yan ( And His Chinese Jazz Band )", " How Many Times?

Jazz pianist and composer, Frank Signorelli, who collaborated on the jazz standards " A Blues Serenade ", recorded by Glenn Miller and Duke Ellington, " Gypsy ", and " Stairway to the Stars ", joined ODJB for a brief time in 1921.

The compositions " So What " and " All Blues " from Kind of Blue are considered contemporary jazz standards.

Musicians of note in this genre include Collegium Vocale Köln ( who first began using this technique in 1968 ), Michael Vetter, David Hykes, Jim Cole, Ry Cooder, Paul Pena ( mixing the traditional Tuvan style with that of American Blues ), Steve Sklar and Kiva ( specializing in jazz / world beat genres and composing for overtone choirs ).

For example, Miller's arrangement of " St. Louis Blues March ", combined blues and jazz with the traditional military march.

Jammin ' the Blues is a 1944 short film in which several prominent jazz musicians got together for a rare filmed jam session.

In other songs, Davies revived the style of British music hall, vaudeville and trad jazz: " Dedicated Follower of Fashion ", " Sunny Afternoon ", " Dandy " and " Little Miss Queen of Darkness " ( all 1966 ); " Mister Pleasant " and " End of the Season " ( both 1967 ); " Sitting By the Riverside " and " All of My Friends Were There " ( both 1968 ); " She's Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina " ( 1969 ); " Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues " and " Alcohol " ( both 1971 ); " Look a Little on the Sunny Side " ( 1972 ); and " Holiday Romance " ( 1975 ).

The area inspired Douglas Furber ( lyricist ) and Philip Braham ( composer ) in 1921 to write the popular jazz standard Limehouse Blues, which was introduced by Jack Buchanan and Gertrude Lawrence in the musical revue " A to Z ".

Whiteman recorded many jazz and pop standards during his career, including " Wang Wang Blues ", " Mississippi Mud ", " Rhapsody in Blue ", " Wonderful One ", " Hot Lips ", " Mississippi Suite ", and " Grand Canyon Suite ".

King, Asleep at the Wheel, Cyndi Lauper, Carl Perkins, Yoko Ono, Blues Traveler, Cher, Chicago, Luba, Robert Burns, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Nina Hagen, Robert Plant, Peter Criss, Scandal, Brian Wilson, Late Show regular Warren Zevon, jazz trumpeter Lew Soloff, jazz saxophonist Lou Marini and bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs.

Zydeco music is also a central theme in the German award-winning 2003 film Schultze Gets the Blues about a retired polka-playing miner living in rural eastern Germany, who, after hearing Zydeco music on the radio, without knowing a word of English, embarks on a tragi-comical odyssey to Louisiana.

During Indians championship game against Shelby, the Blues loaded their team with a collection of famous players from big eastern schools and supported each member with a payroll of $ 700 for just that one game.

Electro Blues for Bukka White featured long-gone disembodied blues-man Bukka White muttering and wailing underneath an eastern drone that both eulogised and ignored him.

Blues songs and influences continued to surface in the Rolling Stones ' music in later years.

The album drew upon influences like Procol Harum, The Moody Blues and The Nice to form an original sound melding rock and roll with classical influences in long, avant-garde pieces of music.

Cabrel cites the artist as one of a number of blues influences, including Charley Patton, Son House, Blind Lemon, Robert Johnson, Howlin ' Wolf, Blind Blake, Willie Dixon, and Blues Boy Willie, whose father toured with Rainey.

The Charlie Daniels Band ( whose earlier tune " The South's Gonna Do It Again " uses boogie-woogie influences ) released " Boogie Woogie Fiddle Country Blues " in 1988, and three years later in 1991 Brooks & Dunn had a huge hit with " Boot Scootin ' Boogie ".

Blues songs and influences continued to surface in the Rolling Stones ' music, as in their version of " Little Red Rooster " went to number 1 on the UK singles chart in December 1964.

Capdown released their Civil Disobedients album, featuring the track Dub # 1, while Sonic Boom Six and The King Blues take heavy influences from dub, mixing the genre with original punk ethics and attitudes.

From a musicological perspective both Spain's " Bandido " and France's " White and Black Blues " can be said to be the first entries to signal a new trend at Eurovision, with both songs fusing contemporary dance music with ethnic influences, from flamenco and calypso respectively.

The 1969 album Beginnings, released under the name Ambrose Slade, featured many musical influences with covers of songs by Steppenwolf, Ted Nugent, Frank Zappa, The Moody Blues, The Beatles and Marvin Gaye.

Weisman also cited the influences of Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears and Hill Street Blues on the series.

The normalization of sport activities in the country and the removal of the political influences on the football community were especially favorable to the results of The Blues.

Artists who have referenced Panther Burns as one of their influences include the American alternative music artists Southern Culture on the Skids, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Jack Oblivian, the Royal Pendletons, and The Gories, as well as lesser known regional artists like Tampa's Barons of Love and Orlando band leader Aaron Jarvis.

He cites his influences for the band at the time as The Moody Blues, Steve Miller Band and the krautrock scene of Kraftwerk, Neu!

Punk rock band Novembar released three studio albums, Deguelo ( 1994 ), Blues južne pruge ( 1997 ), and Licem prema zemlji in ( 2000 ), featuring the band's combination of American guitar oriented rock sound combined with punk rock, pop punk and New Wave influences.

Their musical influences include-At the Drive-In ( the band's name comes from an observation that At the Drive-In sounded like a jet plane landing, made by a band friend ) Helmet, Soundgarden, Blues Explosion, Fugazi, Shellac, Les Savy Fav, Big Black, Pavement, Rage Against the Machine, AC / DC, Robbie Robertson, Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello

With their third album the group started incorporating more traditional influences from hard rock and heavy metal and the album Wolverine Blues is widely considered to be the origin of Death ' n ' roll.

Villette was not interested in the avant-garde direction taken by Boulez's circle, and instead his music drew on influences as eclectic as Gregorian Chant, medieval music, jazz ( he composed an orchestral piece titled Blues ), and Stravinsky.

Other influences by more contemporary artists include the Electric Rag Band, the Country Blues Project ( Germany ), Preacher Boy, Gordon Smith, Paul Geremiah, Paul Rishell and Annie Raines.

The music of the group is generally characterized by a varied eclecticism which encompasses punk, Blues Rock, Industrial music ( with influences like Lemon Kittens, Nocturnal Emissions and Five Or Six cited ), and more abstracted avant-garde experimentation.